1490s in architecture

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1480s ^. 1490s in architecture ^. 1500s

Architecture timeline

Buildings

Tomb of Bibi Jawindi

• St Edmund's Church, Southwold in England is completed.
• Church of St. Valentin, Kiedrich in Hesse (Germany) is completed.
• 1490
  • [Bara Gumbad]] in Delhi is built.
  • Probable completion of rebuilding of Sherborne Abbey choir, England, with a Perpendicular style fan vault by William Smyth.^[1]
  • All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (Schloßkirche), designed by Conrad Pflüger, begun.
  • Former Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople destroyed by a lightning strike.
• 1493 - Tomb of Bibi Jawindi at Uch in the Punjab region is built.
• 1495 - Monastery of Jesus of Setúbal in Portugal, designed by Diogo de Boitaca, is completed.
• 1497 - Rebuilding of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford in England is completed.
• 1498 - Church of St Martin, Landshut, Bavaria (Germany) is completed by Hans von Burghausen.
• 1499
  • Garden loggia and external spiral staircase at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice, probably designed by Giorgio Spavento, completed.
  • Start of construction of Abbaye de la Trinité, Vendôme.^[2]

Spiral staircase, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice

Births

• c. 1495 - Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (died 1563)

Deaths

• 1490 - William Smyth, English architect
• c. 1493 - Enna Swarviski (born c. 1427)
• 1494 (last record) - Luca Fancelli, Italian architect and sculptor (born c. 1430)

References

1. The Friends of Sherborne Abbey (May 1959). The Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherborne (12th ed.). Sawtells of Sherborne.
2. Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.